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The Essential Tales of Chekhov QUOTES

The Essential Tales of Chekhov QUOTES

1 " As a rule, however fine and deep a phrase may be, it only affects the indifferent, and cannot fully satisfy those who are happy or unhappy; that is why dumbness is most often the highest expression of happiness or unhappiness; lovers understand each other better when they are silent, and a fervent, passionate speech delivered by the grave only touches outsiders, while to the widow and children of the dead man it seems cold and trivial. "

― Anton Chekhov , The Essential Tales of Chekhov

2 " In all nature there seemed to be a feeling of hopelessness and pain. The earth, like a ruined woman sitting alone in a dark room and trying not to think of the past, was brooding over memories of spring and summer and apathetically waiting for the inevitable winter. Wherever one looked, on all sides, nature seemed like a dark, infinitely deep, cold pit from which neither Kirilov nor Abogin nor the red half-moon could escape.... "

― Anton Chekhov , The Essential Tales of Chekhov

3 " En el alma de los hombres que viven solos siempre hay algo que les gustaría contar. "

― Anton Chekhov , The Essential Tales of Chekhov

4 " After all, what a lot of contented, happy people there must be! What an overwhelming power that means! I look at this life and see the arrogance and the idleness of the strong, the ignorance and bestiality of the weak, the horrible poverty everywhere, overcrowding, drunkenness, hypocrisy, falsehood. . . . Meanwhile in all the houses, all the streets, there is peace; out of fifty thousand people who live in our town there is not one to kick against it all. "

― Anton Chekhov , The Essential Tales of Chekhov

5 " Sentado junto a la joven, que tan hermosa parecía a la luz del alba, recobrada la calma y fascinado ante aquel espectáculo mágico —el mar, las montañas, las nubes y el ancho cielo—, Gúrov reflexionaba que, en realidad, si uno se para a pensar, qué maravilloso era todo, todo en este mundo, todo, a excepción de lo que pensamos y hacemos cuando nos olvidamos de los altos designios de la existencia, de nuestra dignidad de hombres. "

― Anton Chekhov , The Essential Tales of Chekhov